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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nI’ve been trying to make sense of this story<\/a> for a few hours this morning, so if I get some of it wrong, please blame the subject, Douglas Duane Roberts, aka Liz Roberts, and the author, Tony Messenger.<\/p>\n I think this fellow, Doug Roberts, tried to pass himself off as a hermaphrodite to folks after he was medically discharged from the Army. He claims to Messenger that he has been a woman all of his life, but, James Rogers served with Roberts and Rogers says that while Roberts served as a parachute rigger, he was a man. Somehow being a hermaphrodite gives Roberts some kind of credence in the world of medical marijuana advocates, I’m not sure how, but there it is.<\/p>\n So much of what Liz Roberts has told veterans, politicians, reporters and others about her background simply isn\u2019t true.<\/p>\n Hers is a case of stolen valor, say two men who served with her when she went by her given name.<\/p>\n \u201cShe was lying about everything,\u201d Rogers says. \u201cIt\u2019s a complete disgrace. I\u2019m embarrassed to say I served with her.\u201d<\/p>\n Liz Roberts is not transgender. She is not transitioning.<\/p>\n That is what she told me in a phone interview early this month.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve been a woman all my life,\u201d she said. \u201cI was one of the first hermaphrodites in the military. The Army changed my sex for me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Roberts also claims that he was injured in an IED ambush in Iraq, even though he was never in Iraq. <\/p>\n According to various copies of Roberts\u2019 military records, including her DD 214, the standard record of service issued to a soldier upon discharge, Douglas Duane Roberts served in the Army between 2006 and 2014. Roberts was a rigger \u2014 somebody who packed parachutes \u2014 who served one tour in Afghanistan. She was retired by the military because of a temporary disability…It didn\u2019t take long for some of Roberts\u2019 stories to raise questions. She told the Gradys the same thing she eventually told The Missouri Times, in a story about her efforts to promote medical marijuana: that she had been injured by an improvised explosive device while serving in Iraq. She told Kara Grady that she was pregnant at the time.<\/p>\n Roberts was never in Iraq. She never served as a woman. According to Jen Rogers, who changed the adult diapers that Roberts sometimes wears, Roberts still has male genitals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Mr. Messenger started asking questions about Roberts’ background and he was threatened with legal repercussions – always the best way to deflect background inquiries. <\/p>\n It looks to me that this Missourians for Patient Care<\/a> doesn’t really care about patients as their title suggests – it’s more about legalizing weed than any real patient care. I’m not surprised that they’re embroiled in this whole controversy. Remember Wayward Bill<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"